RANKED: The Most Corrupt Stateshttp://www.businessinsider.com/most-corrupt-states-and-territories-2013-9/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:12:24 -0500Rob Wilehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/522de47aeab8ead95d22b6a5weirdralphMon, 09 Sep 2013 11:08:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522de47aeab8ead95d22b6a5
With respect, the number of convictions is not necessarily an accurate measure of corruption. In fact, the reverse could easily be true, as those states with higher convictions could simply have a lower tolerance for corruption.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522dd4676bb3f71a2b8e5eaagregwjentMon, 09 Sep 2013 10:00:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522dd4676bb3f71a2b8e5eaa
Flawed study statistically... It doesn't matter "public corruption" convictions by population unless the number of people who are in public positions are proportionally larger. The better metric would be to compare those convictions to the number of public officials in each state. The number of public officials doesn't necessarily increase at the same rate as the population.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522cf28869beddfe47696472Benjamin WSun, 08 Sep 2013 17:56:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522cf28869beddfe47696472
As a resident of North Dakota, I can tell you why.
It's because states like North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana have lots of Indian reservations and that is where the corruption is predominantly concentrated. Of course management of the reservations is at the FEDERAL level and not the state level, there's not a whole lot the state can do about tribal corruption.
In North Dakota, not a single non-tribal public official has been convicted of corruption in the last decade. It's the tribal governments and officials that skew the numbers.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5229f531eab8eacc46ad5a84Linda HuffmanFri, 06 Sep 2013 11:30:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5229f531eab8eacc46ad5a84
Your analogy is completely erroneous.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5228bb59eab8ea6e418b456cKatherineThu, 05 Sep 2013 13:11:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5228bb59eab8ea6e418b456c
Couldn't this just mean that South Carolina is just the best at hiding their corruption, so is therefore the MOST corrupt? haha -- seriously, seems like it would be a factor.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52288f4e6bb3f7cd178b456cMikeHThu, 05 Sep 2013 10:03:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52288f4e6bb3f7cd178b456c
I lived in Texas for years. Corruption is part of the fabric of the state. The Governor has a slush fund, can except personal gifts that are quite expensive. Money can be legally passed out on the floor of the house. All of these would put any Illinois politician in jail. It is even worse on the local level, where large polluters can buy off county and city officials with no possibility of jail.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52280222eab8ea81508b4572Dana RidgleyThu, 05 Sep 2013 00:01:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52280222eab8ea81508b4572
Is it really the most convicted that represent the most corrupt states? To me, it seems, that it is the state with the least convicted, the one where the corrupter is never sought out, caught, then convicted, are most corrupt.. The states where there is little effort to seek out the corrupters may do so because the people responsible for maintaining honesty are large in number and are really part of the problem. That sort of system is the most corrupt, yet by the above basis in the article, they would be the least corrupt. And, history generally supports my position.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227f97aeab8ea3c408b456aPinkyleftbrainWed, 04 Sep 2013 23:24:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227f97aeab8ea3c408b456a
Ahh, but doing the 'number per thousand' actually hides the amount of corruption. What you should be looking at is number per people in their state government. Florida has had an epidemic lately, and so has Louisiana... Texas, for example, in this report isn't higher because they have a larger population...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227f193eab8ea3a2d8b4579ConfederateCatholicWed, 04 Sep 2013 22:50:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227f193eab8ea3a2d8b4579
Sure, the ones who have been *found out.* I'm sure Illinois would rank much higher were the double dealing there actually discovered ;)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227bd506bb3f76813316149TheresaWed, 04 Sep 2013 19:08:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227bd506bb3f76813316149
Doesn't convictions mean it's being handled? Or is that Naive? IDK. But I'm happy to see convictions.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227b1dceab8ea192bedd90eTexmatiWed, 04 Sep 2013 18:19:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227b1dceab8ea192bedd90e
I was thinking the same thing . . . just a year ago I saw a similar article that ranked SC as the most corrupt state in the union. . . and then there's-
<a href="http://www.abcnews4.com/story/17194713/sc-named-one-of-the-most-corrupt-state-governments-in-nation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.abcnews4.com/story/17194713/sc-named-one-of-the-most-corrupt-state-governments-in-nation</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227b155ecad04397a96bf2eCWed, 04 Sep 2013 18:16:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227b155ecad04397a96bf2e
Could it be that the "more" corrupt states are actually just better at finding/convicting the corrupt people in their state?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522793cc6bb3f7e73f316153jphphilaWed, 04 Sep 2013 16:10:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522793cc6bb3f7e73f316153
OIL seems curve on which corruption can be measured.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522783d46bb3f72525316149Jim in AlabamaWed, 04 Sep 2013 15:02:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522783d46bb3f72525316149
I believe we were at the top a few years ago after having a democratic led legislature ever since reconstruction but we the people voted all out and since then things have improved greatly. Now we may have to do it again in a few terms but after the improvement we have seen in corruption and waste full spending I believe the voters here will do whatever it takes to continue those efforts.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52276fbb6bb3f7327b31614bNew American DreamWed, 04 Sep 2013 13:36:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52276fbb6bb3f7327b31614b
Illinois not being in the top ten is absurdity.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522766ac6bb3f7396531614dteddy.simon2Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:58:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522766ac6bb3f7396531614d
Thats only because Washington DC is not a statehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227597f6bb3f77050316149g3Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:02:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227597f6bb3f77050316149
No surprise on Louisiana although it hurts to continually admit it. Having lived there many years, did business their way when needed (or no business at all) I found it was not those elected to US office that were the most corrupt. Obviously we see so many State Agency heads go to jail as we should in DC at the Fed level but that will not happen. The biggest corruption in La is without any doubt at the local and parish levels controlled by Democrats.
I thought it was sick but as a NOLA Mayors bag man said "ya gotta pay to play" which at least before Katrina was a fact. But I must say I believe this is a very flawed article based on convictions! Chicago Illinois is actually worse than NOLA but I see much better managed Corruption in Chicago, the only times a person gets convicted is if he/she went against the Daly's and their thugs. When a Fed busts one of them and a R in the White House we see a case and conviction but as long as a D in the White House few if any ever get to court. the Democrat machine's in Chicago and New Orleans are there to stay until those enslaved by them finally recognize aside from corruption the D's All profit greatly from Slavery or Entitlements to those under 65 and healthy. Hopefully these people will wake up and see truth but those listening to the 100 year old pitch that refuse to think it through will perpetuate the corruption until deposed by truth and justice.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522754426bb3f73a4531614cResultsMatterWed, 04 Sep 2013 11:39:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522754426bb3f73a4531614c
@DNY "A true measure of corruption would involve finding out how much of government's functioning is improperly influenced by bribery, cronyism and the like..."
ANswer: 100%http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227487eecad04cf2f96bf2dDNYWed, 04 Sep 2013 10:49:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5227487eecad04cf2f96bf2d
All this assumes that corruption is not so deep that it prevents the arrest and prosecution of corrupt officials.
But why, even if every corrupt official were caught, would working out corruption per capita even a sensible thing to do? An absolute monarchy in which the only government official with any power -- the king -- habitually takes bribes while ruling over a million people is arguably much more corrupt than a tiny city-state republic with 100,000 inhabitants, and 1000 officers of state with actual power 30 of whom can be suborned with bribes, but the per capita corruption rate in the first is .1 per 100,000, while in the latter is 30 per 100,000.
A true measure of corruption would involve finding out how much of government's functioning is improperly influenced by bribery, cronyism and the like, not how many government-employed crooks there are as a proportion of the population.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52274447eab8ea733eedd919jmccasWed, 04 Sep 2013 10:31:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52274447eab8ea733eedd919
Interesting point. LA is dominated by Repubs at the state level but at the local level, Democrats rule in larger metro areas like NOLA. And NOLA is one of the most corrupt cities.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52274360eab8ea4e3eedd912jmccasWed, 04 Sep 2013 10:27:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52274360eab8ea4e3eedd912
Good link. As a LA native, hate seeing this...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52273eeb6bb3f78318316158Joe JitsuWed, 04 Sep 2013 10:08:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52273eeb6bb3f78318316158
The metric used to measure corruption is FLAWED for the following reasons:
1) This data assumes that convictions is an accurate basis for measurement. Truly corrupt states will not convict their own. In other words, In a truly corrupt state, there aren't any convictions for corruption. It's part of the normal way of doing business. I could make a case that more convictions implies less corruption, because crooks are actually punished.
If you look what happened in the cases of Terry McCauliffe (who might end up being rewarded as governor of Virginia) , Charles Rangel and Jon Corzine, just to name a few, you might want to reconsider using a conviction as the key for saying which are the most corrupt. Whether they bribed or used political connections to get off the hook, only Rangel was convicted, if you will, and that involved nothing more than a slap on the wrist. He is still out there trying to be a civil rights “moral compass”, for goodness sakes! Like Al Sharpton, the media still go to him to get quotes on the struggle against the “Man”, when for all practical matters, Rangel the landlord is the Man.
2) I also disagree with the “per-capita” notion. New Hampshire has an enormous legislature and a tiny population. California has an enormous population, and a fairly small legislature. One bad legislator in New Hampshire, by this metric, would make NH look as bad as if half of California’s legislature went to prison.
3) Arrests just mean the crooks pay a consequence for their actions and that there are people in government who work to prevent corruption.
A better measure of corruption would be total State government spending divided by total private sector jobs or total private sector payroll. Unnecessary government spending ends up in the hands of bad people. Follow the money.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52272ee169bedd174e91d370ExactlyWed, 04 Sep 2013 09:00:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52272ee169bedd174e91d370
Based on over fifty years in construction industry, last twenty doing HUGE guvmint projects at state and municipal level, YOU have it correctly.
This is just more meaningless drivel intended to quash the corruption hunters, or, more likely, CO-OPT them into the system if they are the least effective.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52272b00ecad04e07896bf2echunkyhunkWed, 04 Sep 2013 08:43:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52272b00ecad04e07896bf2e
Unfortunately, the chart doesn't show the most corrupt states, it ranks the states in order of most stupid corrupt politicians.
Otherwise, like Florida, they wouldn't be caught, prosecuted, & convicted.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52271b6feab8ea3166edd918JKWed, 04 Sep 2013 07:37:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52271b6feab8ea3166edd918
Yes. They are doing a good job convicting the corrupt. To bad Illinois isn't more aggressive at convicting their corrupt fraudsters.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522719c569bedd822091d360JKWed, 04 Sep 2013 07:30:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522719c569bedd822091d360
It's convictions per 100,000. The republicans are cleaning house better than the Dems according to this measure.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226bf31eab8eaa231ac0c3bfmzWed, 04 Sep 2013 01:03:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226bf31eab8eaa231ac0c3b
you ain't that corrupt until you have a Janet-Lim Napoles in your midst.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226aa1969bedd4120382ff7preuserTue, 03 Sep 2013 23:33:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226aa1969bedd4120382ff7
largest corrupt private companies globally
Rank Company Country Sales Profits Assets Market Value
1
ICBC
China $134,8 B $37,8 B $2 813,5 B $237,3 B
2
China Construction Bank
China $113,1 B $30,6 B $2 241 B $202 B
3
JPMorgan Chase
United States $108,2 B $21,3 B $2 359,1 B $191,4 B
4
General Electric
United States $147,4 B $13,6 B $685,3 B $243,7 B
5
Exxon Mobil
United States $420,7 B $44,9 B $333,8 B $400,4 B
6
HSBC Holdings
United Kingdom $104,9 B $14,3 B $2 684,1 B $201,3 B
7
Royal Dutch Shell
Netherlands $467,2 B $26,6 B $360,3 B $213,1 B
8
Agricultural Bank of China
China $103 B $23 B $2 124,2 B $150,8 B
9
Berkshire Hathaway
United States $162,5 B $14,8 B $427,5 B $252,8 B
10
PetroChina
China $308,9 B $18,3 B $347,8 B $261,2 Bhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226a7446bb3f7ac7668b30dpreuserTue, 03 Sep 2013 23:21:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226a7446bb3f7ac7668b30d
largest corrupt place by dollar amount globally .................... Washingtion D.C.
Largest single group of corrupt government officials by dollar amount ......US congresshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/52269aefecad04ec5fac0c57trystTue, 03 Sep 2013 22:29:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52269aefecad04ec5fac0c57
it's those cocksuckers in yanktonhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/52268f116bb3f7904f68b30594Q45TTue, 03 Sep 2013 21:38:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52268f116bb3f7904f68b305
On the other hand, perhaps the remaining states have corrupt Attornies Generalhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/52268a9169bedd6e61382feadabble53Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:19:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52268a9169bedd6e61382fea
Just as a point of curiosity, it would be interesting to see (I'm too lazy to research it myself) the red/blue state breakout, as well as the party affiliation of the corrupteehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226879ceab8ea483bac0c48RjacoTue, 03 Sep 2013 21:06:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226879ceab8ea483bac0c48
Would it not be better to take how many public officials have been convicted versus how many public officials have held office in the state during the amount of years studied? If you want to know what state has the most corrupt public officials, it seems illogical to water down how many public officials are convicted by comparing them with general population. If you only want to study corruption among public officials, either take the raw number of convicted public officials from each state or compare the convicted officials with the non-convicted officials for each state.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522674f5ecad04a21cac0c45bpnTue, 03 Sep 2013 19:47:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522674f5ecad04a21cac0c45
The operative word here is "convictions". The more rampant the corruption in the state the less it would be prosecuted against, and thus said state would actually be more corrupt than its peers.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266ee5ecad040714ac0c3fToo funnyTue, 03 Sep 2013 19:21:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266ee5ecad040714ac0c3f
The top 8 are red states.
What a surprise.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266c1969bedd0f1f382feasaboTue, 03 Sep 2013 19:09:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266c1969bedd0f1f382fea
I must add a disclaimer: No Body is Alive that worked with me.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266bbfeab8ea7779ac0c46JonDiPietroTue, 03 Sep 2013 19:07:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266bbfeab8ea7779ac0c46
Well, I guess it depends on your definition of corruption. We live in a country addicted to debt and the politicians are giving the voters exactly what they want: I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today. When it comes to our runaway debt, it's a case of getting exactly the government you deserve. We've seen it thousands of times in the past 30 years. Given a choice between cutting spending and breaking out the government credit card "one last time," we vote for the latter every day of the week and Sundays too. For that reason, I don't consider it corruption.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266bb06bb3f75b0968b327saboTue, 03 Sep 2013 19:07:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266bb06bb3f75b0968b327
I Know Corruption Firsthand as a Gypsy Artist living in Nawlins, and The Big Island Hawaii at the same time growing agriculture (herbs) and distributing to Gov't Officials because they only want the Best. So many people lost Families, and Freedom to these same people that benefit off of the confiscating of property and illegal drugs that I redistributed and shared profits with them in both communities during the 70's and 80's. It will always be an extra income for most Officials if they Operate As Usual within their families avoiding detection by remaining Silent. (Omerta)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266b7f69bedd4712383002RooseTue, 03 Sep 2013 19:06:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52266b7f69bedd4712383002
most of that is just Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beachhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/522669b86bb3f7900b68b303stop the madnessTue, 03 Sep 2013 18:59:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522669b86bb3f7900b68b303
The real measure is not convictions! The only item you need to look at is the amount of debt that each state has compared to it's population. This is the true measure of corruption which in most situations is hidden in the fine details until one day the city/state has to claim bankruptcy if the corrupt Politian's let them claim it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226685a69bedd6d0f382ff9KCRobTue, 03 Sep 2013 18:53:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226685a69bedd6d0f382ff9
It was back in the late 70s when the Feds convicted more than 240 country commissioners in Oklahoma for corruption - bribes, kickbacks, skimming - the works.
And once all these characters traded their county offices for a prison cell - all this tax money, no longer being stolen - resulted in exactly zilch as far as improvements in the state.
Largest government scandal in history (up to that point):
<a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/Former_official_who_exposed_Oklahoma_county_commissioners/20080131_1__broke75227" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/Former_official_who_exposed_Oklahoma_county_commissioners/20080131_1__broke75227</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226659769beddd109383009soTue, 03 Sep 2013 18:41:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226659769beddd109383009
"To get a true sense of the most corrupt state, we need to know how many convictions there have been on a population basis."
Maybe? High convictions could mean the state does a good job cleaning up corruption.
In any event, corruption impacts the citizens whether or not there's a conviction.
If zero convictions, maybe the whole state corrupt.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522664056bb3f7fa7c68b30dmsannomalleyTue, 03 Sep 2013 18:34:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522664056bb3f7fa7c68b30d
What do the top 3 have in common? They're governed by one party and the minority party is too weak and to few in number to provide the necessary checks and balances needed to keep corruption out of government.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226620269bedde209382fe6Gil C. SchmidtTue, 03 Sep 2013 18:26:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226620269bedde209382fe6
Been there, done that: 19 September 2012, where the numbers put Louisiana #2: <a href="http://gilthejenius.blogspot.com/2012/09/were-1-were-1-in-corruption.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://gilthejenius.blogspot.com/2012/09/were-1-were-1-in-corruption.html</a>
Picked up by Global Voices Online the same day: <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/19/puerto-rico-corruption-ranking/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/19/puerto-rico-corruption-ranking/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226605c69bedded7b382ffaJenna MarshalTue, 03 Sep 2013 18:19:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226605c69bedded7b382ffa
HAHA look at all those republican states at the top!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52265bb1eab8ea015fac0c43BCTTue, 03 Sep 2013 17:59:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52265bb1eab8ea015fac0c43
That Rhode Island is not near the top calls the study into question. Corrupt officials don't get convicted or even charged if the whole system is rigged.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52265b19ecad04f36eac0c3bSumDumGuyTue, 03 Sep 2013 17:56:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52265b19ecad04f36eac0c3b
Talk about misguided.
The truth is that Louisiana is the prime offender of what happens when you let the For Profit prison system go wild in your state.
<a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522653d5ecad04975fac0c41jasontweedTue, 03 Sep 2013 17:25:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522653d5ecad04975fac0c41
The chart doesn't demonstrate corruption, it demonstrates convictions for corruption. In this case, true corruption should be inversely proportional because of a lack of oversight or convictions. I'm sure the 1920s in Chicago had a very low rate of corruption convictions.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52265240eab8eabe4eac0c3fbadbobTue, 03 Sep 2013 17:18:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52265240eab8eabe4eac0c3f
It's only because SC is so corrupt, including judges, that no one ever gets convicted. Hence the low rate.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522650886bb3f7ea5568b307meanpeoplesuckTue, 03 Sep 2013 17:11:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522650886bb3f7ea5568b307
Florida, what a surprise! The state that stole the election for Chimpy W McHitler, thus ruining the world for the next 100 years.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52264f3feab8ea2545ac0c42Jason BrownTue, 03 Sep 2013 17:06:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52264f3feab8ea2545ac0c42
A fraud barometer might be another data source to assess most corrupt. KPMG runs said devices in Australia and New Zealand but not sure about United States. This basically monitors the number of fraud cases, and their stated worth, via court filings.
However, as pointed out by other correspondents, this is not an accurate measure either. A state with a high level of fraud and corruption prosecutions may in fact be cleaner than a state with fewer?
Take Delaware for example. Ranked 12th, Delaware is world famous (as in the actual world, not US "world series" world) as a source of financial secrecy, if not the most secret. Obviously not too many convictions there.
On that count alone, Delaware is not just the most corrupt state in the United States, but renders the whole US of A the most corrupt state in, yes, the world.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522648f96bb3f7a74668b30bT. Sopranos GhostTue, 03 Sep 2013 16:39:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522648f96bb3f7a74668b30b
This has got to be wrong. I'm positive that New Jersey should hold the top 3 spots.
Top 3 spots? Impossible, you say? You clearly haven't been to New Jersey.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226483069bedd3e4d382febRippedUrchinTue, 03 Sep 2013 16:36:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5226483069bedd3e4d382feb
It is a sad commentary that there is absolutely no state in this country that is immune from corrpution. And while these numbers reflect convictions, I wonder what the actual number of corrupted pols is if you include those that "got away with it".http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522646c969bedd6445382ff1thebodygdTue, 03 Sep 2013 16:30:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/522646c969bedd6445382ff1
Completely wrong ! It's Washington D.C. ( District of Corruption ) !http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263f9a6bb3f7b63468b30fbucketheadTue, 03 Sep 2013 15:59:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263f9a6bb3f7b63468b30f
+1
It is likely more complicated than that, but if we are to reduce it to a headline/top ten list, your scenario is at least as likely as the one assumed by the author.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263f136bb3f7ed3668b30aJonDiPietroTue, 03 Sep 2013 15:57:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263f136bb3f7ed3668b30a
I'm not sure convictions is a great measure, since you could argue that the most corrupt states would be the most difficult to secure convictions. Also, it doesn't take into account the degree of corruption. As @Go_to_jail mentioned, an incarcerated governor and some state representative that gets a slap on the wrist are not the same level of corruption.
Having said, I'm not sure there's a better metric easily available.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263ee86bb3f7ed3468b31bIf DC were a State it would be #1Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:56:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263ee86bb3f7ed3468b31b
Nowhere else in the world money is pocketed in comparable amounts by lobbyists, government employees and special interests.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263d6decad048c33ac0c46GregTue, 03 Sep 2013 15:50:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263d6decad048c33ac0c46
This couldn't possibly be a list of which states prosecute corruption the most aggressively and even effectively as it is only convictions...if the idea is to ID corrupt states (least success at prosecuting corrupt officials) you could as easily argue that this data could be exactly flipped.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263d036bb3f7b93668b303Sean WTue, 03 Sep 2013 15:48:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263d036bb3f7b93668b303
Get out of your hole. Seriously. It's good for you.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263cb8ecad044d31ac0c4eGo to jailTue, 03 Sep 2013 15:47:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263cb8ecad044d31ac0c4e
LA, ranking is pretty good but Illinois should be number 1. Four of our last five governors have gone to jail.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263a43ecad044f31ac0c3fMCTue, 03 Sep 2013 15:36:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52263a43ecad044f31ac0c3f
Having SC as the least corrupt state pretty much voids the study...